Spotify is world's number 2 podcasting platform

February 8, 2018

Some data from The Feed by Libsyn (about 54 minutes in): Spotify had 5.1% of all Libsyn podcast downloads for most of January, making it by far the #2 platform. Podcasts on Spotify skew towards comedy and horror, and skew away from tech podcasts.

The RAJAR audience figures are out for the UK radio industry. Of note to podcasters: speech station BBC Radio 4 is slightly down, but their Radio 4 Extra station, which contains some podcast material including This American Life, continues to rise.

France: a new branded podcast company, WPO, launches in Nice. It's run by Jean-Christophe Dimino.

A new podcast app, Playapod, launches for Android and iOS, claiming it "is the only podcast app that displays exactly what the user has listened to, skipped over and “favorited” across all podcast episodes". You can install it here.

The Australian ABC is launching The Pineapple Project, a podcast about advice with money. Pineapples is the nickname Australians apparently give their $50 note: "Just like money, pineapples are sweet. But they’re a prick to deal with if you don’t know how to handle them."